Here is the first image of Charlize Theron in director Gilles Paquet-Brenner’s adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s best-selling novel Dark Places. Theron plays Libby Day, a woman who at the age of seven, survives the massacre of her family and testifies against her brother as the killer. Years after the trial, now a grown woman, Libby must confront what she saw or didn’t saw, when she is approached by a group obsessed with solving notorious crimes.
Also
starring are Nicholas Hoult, Chloƫ Grace Moretz, Christina Hendricks, and Drea
de Matteo.
Dark
Places doesn’t have a release date yet, but if it opens in 2014 it will join
another adaptation of a Gillian Flynn novel, David Fincher’s Gone Girl.
Press Release:
GILLIAN
FLYNN’S BEST-SELLING NOVEL LURES BUYERS AS EXCLUSIVE MEDIA COMPLETES MAJOR
SALES FOR ITS ‘DARK PLACES’
Los
Angeles, CA (November 8 2013) – Producer and co-financier Exclusive Media has
completed major sales on DARK PLACES, the film adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s
best-selling novel of the same title starring Oscar winning actress Charlize
Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Chloƫ Grace Moretz, Emmy Award nominated actress
Christina Hendricks and Drea de Matteo, it was announced by Alex Walton,
President of International Sales and Distribution for Exclusive Media.
All
rights deal were completed with Mars in France, Remstar in Canada, CCC in
Japan, Svensk in Scandinavia, Ascot Elite in Switzerland, Nu Metro in South
Africa, Odeon in Greece, Sam Films in Iceland, Tanweer in Turkey, India and
Pakistan, Tandem in Bulgaria, SOLD in Eastern Europe, Discovery in
Croatia/Slovenia/Serbia, AQS in the Czech Republic, Prorom in Hungary and
Romania, Monolith in Poland, West in Russia/the Baltic States, Noori in South
Korea, and United King in Israel.
Exclusive
Media also completed deals with IDC in Latin America, Front Row in the Middle
East, PT Amero in Indonesia, Universal Excel in Malaysia, Captive in the
Philippines, Intercontinental in Hong Kong,
M Pictures in Thailand, Noori / Megastar in Vietnam, Cathay in
Singapore, CMC in Taiwan, Fox/Star for SEAsian TV and Jaguar for planes/ships.
“Best-selling
author of three novels including Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn has proven to be the
big draw card to buyers as well as the film’s all-star cast and the response so
far has been incredible,” said Alex Walton.
Written
and directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner (SARAH’S KEY), DARK PLACES is co-financed
by Exclusive Media and Cuatro Plus Films. Exclusive Media is producing with
Stephane Marsil of Hugo Films, Charlize Theron’s Denver and Delilah Productions
partners Beth Kono and AJ Dix; and Mandalay’s Cathy Schulman and Matt Rhodes.
Exclusive Media’s Matt Jackson is producing, with the company’s Guy East, Nigel
Sinclair, Tobin Armbrust and Alex Brunner Executive Producing. Peter Safran is
also serving as an Executive Producer.
DARK
PLACES tells the story of Libby Day, a woman who, at the age of 7, survives the
massacre of her family and testifies against her brother as the murderer.
Twenty-five years later, a group obsessed with solving notorious crimes
confronts her with questions about the horrific event.
Dark
Places was published in 2009 and was listed on the New York Times Best Seller
List for hardcover fiction for two consecutive weeks. The book was also shortlisted for the Crime
Writers’ Association Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award and won the Dark Scribe
Magazine Black Quill Award for Dark Genre Novel of the Year. Gillian Flynn is one of the most recent
critically acclaimed suspense writers and her recent novel, Gone Girl, spent
eight weeks at No. 1 on the hardcover fiction best-seller list of The New York
Times, and has sold more than two million copies in print and digital formats.
Currently
in post-production, Exclusive Media is debuting first footage from DARK PLACES
at AFM.
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